I know it's hotly contested which of the four elements everyone would want if the world of Avatar was real...

I know it's hotly contested which of the four elements everyone would want if the world of Avatar was real, but can we all agree that firebending is trash and you're a simp if that's your desired element?

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Firebenders would have conquered the world if that darn pesky Aang didn't intervene

Simp isnt the right word. But yes fire powers are the most cliche, over represented, and uninspired choice

FireBENDERS. As in, people. It seems to be the element that's the most widely spread and is fueled by rage. If waterbenders had that kind of drive, Avatar would be the animated version of Waterworld.

Earrhbending is for mega chads if you bend anything else you're a bitch we only make an exception for Uncle Iroh he can bend fire cause he is based

Firebending is not the best, but most likely top 2. At least it doesn't require earth/water source to work.
Airbending will be my personal favorite, though. Can be used basically everywhere, you can fly, it's good for defense and can be imbalanced as fuck when used offensively (imagine pumping all the air out of someone's lungs).

I would be stuck with airbending through sheer power of irony.

Zaheer was the only one who ever asphyxiated someone with airbending. The nomads would never teach that technique.

I probably want Airbending or Waterbending.

>cliche, over represented, and uninspired choice
That doesn't have anything to do with how practical the ability is.

airbending is by far a more useless element than fire, are you fucking kidding me?

Waterbending can already do that, though. Katara straight up threw razor-sharp, ultra-thin discs of ice like shuriken.

Waterbending seems to have the most applications and is able to be used anywhere outside a desert when you get woke on shit like humidity and drawing water from plants, though I'm pretty sure I'd be an airbender. Firebending's cool but everything else is more useful outside of combat.

Well, a couple thousands years ago making a fire and warming yourself were probably one of the most essential survival skills. Mostly useless nowadays, though.

Producing a disproportionate amount of energy than consumed, how awful

I guess you can use lightning to power a generator... though I feel like it would just overload and explode.

... How the hell did a bunch of firebenders shoot lightning at a power plant and not completely fry the fucking thing?

Steam

Firebenders are godlike, plebs. No other element actually produces energy and matter out of nothing.
lightningbending is even more godlike because you are bending on an atomic level and manipulating electric currents. the logical conclusion is magnetism bending which would be as good as having telekinesis.

Earthbending is literally telekinesis.

so is waterbending by that logic. telekinesis of water or earth and nothing else.

Kind of. I'd say it fits more in line with earthbending though, as you can't just generate dirt out of nothingness. Skilled waterbenders can make water out of the air, from plants, and while it's never shown in the shows, I imagine they could straight up rip fluid from your desiccated corpse.

But what I'm saying is that magnetism isn't limited only to certain types of things.

Maybe a possible third show would delve into that, but seeing how much effort and skill is required just to make electricity, focusing it into something as nuanced as magnetismbending seems unlikely.

Imagine having to produce your element instead of having the entire planet covered in shit you can control and manipulate

I honestly think Airbending, Waterbending and Earthbending are all close contenders for “the best”, so much so that eventually the only way you can choose one over another 100% is through situational bias.

Airbending:
>flight and increased speed gives the highest manoeuvrability in an average battlefield of any element
>can kill via long-range asphyxiation, serious danger to firebenders especially
>can fire anything like a bullet by using differences in pressure to launch objects such as knives
>might be able to cause deafness via creating shockwaves through rapid pressure changes
>enemies will always be in range because they have to breathe
>could send air through veins to cause a blockage
>possible manipulation of smoke and other dangerous gases for area denial

Waterbending:
>most fluid of all elements, can change combat form and even the physical state of their element on a dime, thus making them adaptable and hard to predict
>possible manipulation of stomach fluids and inner ear fluids (more abundant in water than blood) at close range, causing immense pain or balance issues
>bloodbending (situational but worth the mention)
>water can be pulled from plants and even the air in the right conditions
>could potentially cause strokes or heart attacks by focusing all bending power onto a single blood vessel to cause a blockage

Earthbending:
>sturdiest of all elements, strongest defence and raw weight make earthbenders difficult to move against their will
>the ground is their friend, even an Airbender can’t fly forever (unless they’re called Laghima or Zaheer)
>the only element that can become completely invisible by tunnelling beneath the ground and using seismic sense to locate targets (also nearly invincible like this)
>can create pitfall traps to trap enemies, them close the walls in to crush them

Firebending:
>a shit

all your shit can be set on fire

Earthbending beats all.
It's like rock paper scissors without the retarded notion that paper beats rock.
Fire is clearly the worst.

Earth > Water = Air > Fire.

I'm surprised everyone is forgetting that firebenders can fucking fly. Only two airbenders in history ever came close to that.

The fact that they don't teach the technique doesn't mean it can't be used, though, even if it'll require an unorthodox teacher or lots of practice and figuring out how to pull it off.
Personally I kinda have to wonder if it's possible to kill someone with earthbending by adding some good old sand in their food and later using that to sand down their intestines some.

>literally free energy since no firebender is ever portrayed to even get physically tired from shooting fireballs all day
correct me if i'm wrong but that seems to be a lot more utilitarian than being able to simply move crap in front of you.

I mean, Magneto can rape someone from the inside-out via the natural iron in their blood. Couldn't metalbenders do the same?

>charge your phone
>power the lights
>power an engine
>power the A/C
>heat your house
>heat your food
>dry your clothes
>heat your water

firebender has far more practical uses than any other element when you stop LARPing. This is a bunch of copeposting in this thread. Enjoy your cold baths.

That's reaching bullshit levels of overpowered, though, there's 4 grams of iron spread throughout your body, in total, not just in blood.
I'm not talking bullshit-overpowered benders here, I'm talking a vaguely-above-average bender who's compensating for the lack of supreme ability with cheeky strats like giving an army some good old coffee grounds vomit.

Yeah but they don't use it to advance society in some revolutionary way; they just use it to burn shit.

>water
Useless
>air
Useless
>fire
Useless. “b-but I can heat muh food!”, just use the microwave lazyass.
>earthbending
God tier. The Earth is literally a giant rock, the fuck are the other elements gonna do when I can split the damn planet in half? There’s also metal bending too and considering everything is made out of metal that’s equally OP as well.

me:
>stop larping
you:
>muh im gunna split the earth in half

meant for

You can't split the fucking earth in half. The closest anyone came to that was an Avatar splitting up a continent and making an island (which is also highly fucking suspect, considering she used the wind as if the island was a big boat).

And metalbenders can only bend impure metals. You couldn't, for instance, strangle someone with their platinum necklace.

their military tech advancements were revolutionary.

>yo lemme just ignite this fuckin ROCK

Firebender flight is totally different from the variety of Airbender flight you’re thinking of. Standard Firebender and Airbender flight relies on using the element to provide propulsion, which can’t be kept up forever. Laghima and Zaheer used a much different form of flight in which their spirits literally became like air, allowing them to give their bodies over to the air and stay suspended without expending any effort. You can think of it as their bodies gaining the density of air.

Nope, metalbenders are just Earthbenders who have fine enough control that they can manipulate the trace dirt/bendable material in poorly-refined metals. If you gave a metalbender a 100% pure sample of metal they would never be able to bend it.

how do you microwave raw meat if you're stuck in the wild or something

you can actually because rarely do you find just rock purely by itself and not surrounded by flammable material.

>charge your phone
>power the lights
>power an engine
>power the A/C
I see you’ve never heard of voltage.

I know how airbender flight works, but it's also basically impossible for someone to completely shed all "earthly tethers" and transform their spirits to becoming as light as air. However, a firebender can do it basically on command, and it's portrayed as being much faster than airbender flight. More importantly, any firebender can do it.

ITT people wonder why the fire nation was the most advanced

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lightningbending nigger

By that logic all of the Fire Nation’s greatest architectural accomplishments can be ripped to shreds because they probably contain stone and/or metal. Hell, for the most part they’re situated on solid ground. Couldn’t even a single Earthbender squad just chip away at the foundations of a huge fortress until the whole thing collapses into an artificial sinkhole? And anyway, a large portion of EK architecture is made of bent stone. Just look at Omashu and Ba Sing Se’s upper ring.

Steam powered engines?

> Couldn’t even a single Earthbender squad just chip away at the foundations of a huge fortress until the whole thing collapses into an artificial sinkhole?
you could do this as well with a drill. and it doesn't mean you would get away with it.

Voltage limits and alternating/direct currents, faggot.

>and it doesn't mean you would get away with it
Except you totally could. The FN drill got stopped because they rolled up in plain view of everyone and had the Avatar to contend with. Meanwhile, an Earthbender squad could tunnel underground, somewhere that the FN has demonstrated no ability to scan for enemies, and work as they pleased without so much as seeing a Firebender until they rip open the ground from beneath their ash-making boots.

i'd be a waterbending chad of course

>throws lightning orb at your mudflinging.
nothing personal.

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I can't remember firebenders flying in ATLA (except for comet buff). Is that an actual thing in Korra or something?

>itt: loserbenders cope that firebending the best

i believe water is easily the most broken, because you can change its state from water to ice, probably even evaporate it, and as shown in the series could be used to even cut materials like fucking steal. Imagine bending poison. Also heal abilities.
Its change in nature and adaptability makes it the best, but the problem is you need water with you, so even if super broken is also super balanced, which is great for story telling but sucks as super power.

I'll pick airbending simply because it lets you fly and has direct impact in how you move, like this guy said:

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korra is fucking shit

I think Azula was able to do a rocket jump during the attack on the air temple.

>Also heal abilities.
only roasties get it tho

Azula could, Jeong Jeong could, Iroh could, and I think even Mako's useless ass did it once. It's definitely not a common or easy technique, but it doesn't require Sozin's Comet.

imagine just water punching someone

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